Abstract Painting No. 4

Broto, since his beginnings in the seventies, would strongly defend painting versus Conceptual Art which had exiled traditional media. While in the 1980s and 1990s Broto's painting was characterized by density, with the predominant concept of the interior landscape with a very serious tone, it is during the new millennium when his painting returned to being more frivolous and used color in a more effusive way, as can be appreciated in this piece. Broto himself declared: "I have regained the freedom to select colors." In this piece he opts for a green background on which he splashes brushstrokes in primary colors. If light emanated in certain locations and from within his painting before, it is now homogenized and bathes the full pictorial surface. The very choice of title, Abstract Painting (Pintura Abstracta), signifies a joyous vindication of painting.